Student Program

Be Part of Something Unique!

The Digital Tech Academy is our new program open only to outstanding digital talents from all FAU degree programs and faculties! We impart all you need to follow your heart and passion for digitization, entrepreneurship and innovation. Work in interdisciplinary teams, get in touch with expert coaches and mentors, develop your own pristine and validated business model and get integrated in our Fellows and start-up network.

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What are the benefits of the Student Program?

Within a 12 weeks Sprint, you will learn the newest state-of-the-art innovation methods and work in interdisciplinary teams on your entrepreneurial challenge. Choose either your own start-up idea or one of the highly enticing projects from your participants colleagues.
You´ll work with 25 other handpicked talents from FAU as well as participants from our partner companies and our international expert coaches and mentors – a unique chance to widen your professional network globally. There is no place you can´t learn something for your start-up!

All these skills and networks we provide will distinguish you significantly from other founders and entrepreneurs in your later work-life. And at the end of that Sprint, you´ll have developed your own pristine and validated business model empowering you to enter your chosen market.

Upon successfull completion of the program, each participan t will also receive an official certificate by FAU at the end of the program. Besides, some participants will get a highly exclusive grant to visit one of the top universitiesworldwide to work on the international perspective of his or her project.

What are the projects and objectives?

As mentioned, you can work either on your own start-up idea, or on a project from our company partners with their participants – after the 12 weeks program you will have:
+ a validated Business Model
+ a validated Market Potential
+ a validated Financial Plan
+ defined / work in progress prototypes

What happens during this 12 weeks Sprint?

You will successfully complete many workshops which are organized as Block-Seminars on Fridays / Saturdays to make it easier for you to participate along your regular curriculum.
You get guided through the end-to-end Business Design  process by learning each step of it by the following program:

+ Kick off with project partners, team formation & challenge assignment
+ Discover -> Become an expert
+ Design -> Create your business model, story video and landing page
+ Prototyping -> Define your required prototypes and start with its development
+ Validate -> Challenge the future scenario and plan your financial requirements
+ Review -> Reflect the executed experiments and the voices of your test partners
+ Decide -> Decide upon your final product design
-> Final Demo Day: Present your product and pivot or proceed

In addition to the program we provide several digitization enabler too.
+ Workshops, Hackathons, Events: Learn how to bring hardware/product together with software and what value add is created for the customers.
+ Franken Finance Festival: Learn what possibilities you have to get your start-up financed and setup the contacts you need into the world of investors.

How do I register?

The next Batch 8 Fellows program will be held at the summer semester 2022 from April until July 2022. The application period will be open from November 2021 until February 2022. If you want to stay tuned then register for our newsletter at the bottom of the page or just send us an e-mail if you want us to notify you when the new application round starts

Please find here the full program and schedule of Batch 7…

Batch 7 Dates & Events